waggishness

The problem is that when he wrote well, you remembered his waggishness.

At the controversy’s peak, Peele tweeted simply, “It’s a documentary,” poking the beehive with characteristic waggishness.

Nobody does waggishness like the British, a skill on full display in “Decline and Fall,” a three-part adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel that begins streaming on Acorn on Monday, May 15.

Though Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison—with the permission of the author’s estate—have somewhat expanded and changed Dahl’s story, The BFG honors the author’s whimsical, waggishness impropriety.

In the 1950s, with no experience beyond great linguistic facility and constitutional waggishness, Mr. Waas established his own advertising agency, Waas Inc., in Philadelphia.